“As international lawyers, we were very interested in thinking about how does one unmake international obligations that have been built up over a period of decades?”
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald on Complexity’s Embrace
Complexity's Embrace: A Timely Look at International Law and Brexit
Complexity’s Embrace: The International Law Implications of Brexit is a collection of essays edited by Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, director of the ILRP at CIGI, and Eva Lein, professor at the University of Lausanne and senior research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. This timely volume examines the political, economic, environmental, social and legal fallout of the storm unleashed by the United Kingdom’s June 2016 referendum.
The book brings together experts from different parts of the world on the important issues affected by Brexit: trade, financial services, IP, environmental law and human rights. How do you unbind international law and rewrite it? What will happen to the international and domestic laws and regulations that shape daily life? Contributors address these questions and more.
Complexity’s Embrace was presented to great interest in the United Kingdom at an event in May attended by members of the House of Lords, Brexit advisers and Brexit correspondents from media outlets such as Politico and the Financial Times.